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Articles - January - 2024 Issue

56th California Book Fair in San Francisco: Feb. 9-11

Collectible Paper: great dealers and examples!

Collectible Paper: great dealers and examples!

The California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to San Francisco in 2024! This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, first editions, illustrated books, ephemera, maps, and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.

Friday, Friday, February 9, 2024 • 5pm to 8pm 
Saturday, February 10, 2024 • noon to 7pm
Sunday, February 11, 2024 • noon to 5pm 

FREE admission for students with current valid student ID. Children 12 and under are free.

FREE admission for librarians, curators, and related non-profit cultural institution workers who register in advance with a valid organizational email address (e.g. email@institution.edu or email@institution.org). 

 

Where to find the show? In San Francisco, at Pier 27, downtown on the Embarquedero.

 

Here are a 122+ reasons to plan to join this exceptional fair!

 

Here’s an (Alphabetical by Exhibitor) list:

 

210     Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
107     Libreria de Antaño
108     Appledore Books
234     Argonaut Book Shop
241     Athena Rare Books
142     Auger Down Books
132     B & B Rare Books
157     B Street Books
160     Antiquariat Michael Banzhaf
215     Bauman Rare Books
253     Simon Beattie Ltd
127     Stuart Bennett Rare Books
240     Antiquariat Reinhold Berg eK
120     David Bergman
225     Between the Covers Rare Books
226     Biblioctopus
209     Blackwell's Rare Books
207     Blank Verso Books 
246     Carl Blomgren Fine Books
247     Bolerium Books
228     The Book Bin
155     Bookleggers Fine Books
113     Books of Wonder
127     Brick Row Book Shop
125     Bromer Booksellers, Inc.
214     Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd
251     Buckingham Books
120     Pablo Butcher
148     Captain Ahab's Rare Books
152     Caroliniana Rare Books
242     Carpe Diem Fine Books
218     Jeffrey D. Carr
260     Cavendish Rare Books
227     Librairie Rodolphe Chamonal
117     Librairie Clavreuil
116     Stéphane Clavreuil Rare Books Ltd
137     Deborah Coltham Rare Books
254     Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Limited
116     Daniel Crouch Rare Books Limited
105     James Cummins Bookseller
141     Daniel / Oliver Gallery
129     Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
145     Nat DesMarais Rare Books
213     Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller
104     Discovery Bay Old Books
208     Dungeness Books
149     Editio Altera 
140     Christopher Edwards
258     Scott Emerson Books
123     The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
100     Antiquariaat Forum BV
245     Robert Frew Ltd
237     mark funke, bookseller
119     Elena Gallego Rare Books
118     Garcia-Garst, Booksellers ABAA
248     Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
106     Globus Rare Books & Archives
130     Hackenberg Booksellers
138     Amanda Hall Rare Books
156     David A. Hamilton Americana Books
212     Peter Harrington
154     Heritage Book Shop, LLC
147     Jeff Hirsch Books
200     John Howell for Books
102     HS Rare Books
209     Hyraxia Books
203     Inlibris Gilhofer
239     Jarndyce Books
151     johnson rare books & archives
201     Jonkers Rare Books
217     Ben Kinmont Bookseller
222     Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
203     Kotte Autographs
206     Michael Laird Rare Books & Manuscripts 
144     Langdon Manor Books, LLC
146     JF Letenneur Livres Rares
205     Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts
233     Locus Solus Rare Books
114     Lucius Books
109     Maggs Bros Ltd
126     Bruce Marshall Rare Books
131     McBride Rare Books
252     Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
135     Kate Mitas, Bookseller
250     Kunsthandel Mitmannsgruber
236     J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books & Musical Autographs
249     Munster & Company, LLC
128     Neatline Antique Maps
224     Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
216     Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts
259     Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
133     John Price Antiquarian Books
219     Bernard Quaritch Ltd
158     Janette Ray Booksellers
110     William Reese Company LLC
223     Antiquariaat De Roo
220     Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
204     Barry Lawrence Ruderman
121     Ken Sanders Rare Books
112     Antiquariaat Schierenberg
256     Sophie Schneideman Rare Books
139     Susanne Schulz-Falster
136     Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera
238     Shapero Rare Books
221     Sokol Books Ltd
202     Sophia Rare Books
255     Benjamin Spademan Rare Books
111     David Spilman Fine Books
122     Michael Steinbach Rare Books
257     Stellar Books & Ephemera
232     Douglas Stewart Fine Books
243     Swan's Fine Books
261     Symonds Rare Books
262     Ten Pound Island Book Co.
134     Michael Thompson Rare Books
235     Triolet Rare Books
150     Tschanz Rare Books
211     Voewood Rare Books
153     Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.
231     John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
115     lizzyoung bookseller
143     Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Rare Book Monthly

  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000

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